I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.

I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.

I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.

It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.

When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.

It is probably very necessary to present your ego at some point.

The way to compose for me is to have lots of time.

As a result, I had to get my own playground which was my band Colours. This band lasted for about eight years and then the air was out of it and it was time to finish.

The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.

I played cello in my high school orchestra.

You're only as good as you're next thought of yourself.

Here is one of the biggest reasons why keeping your goals in your mind only is dangerous: your brain leaks!

Be smarter than others imagined.Be braver than others anticipated.Be stronger than others calculated.Be better than others envisioned.

Historically, defense spending cuts have preceded increased international turmoil as America's global enemies sense a failure of will.

For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.

I’m not saying that everyone needs to be celibate, but you don’t need a romance to complete a story about a woman

Its interesting, the things you learn when youre 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if youre not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.

It is not a question of whether you 'have what it takes,' but of whether you take the gifts you have - they are plenteous - and share them with all the world.

Every day a little life, a blank to be inscribed with gentle thoughts.

I hope I have found myself, my work, my happiness - under the light of the western skies.